The abstract notion of beauty
A very nice video from the BBC explaining the Greek idea of beauty through the Diotima's ladder http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02b617n
Category: Education Society
How education implies changes in society
8 things to look in the classroom, a beautiful tweet !
https://twitter.com/sylviaduckworth/status/556920384512352256
What does it mean to be an expert in the Web era?
Topics that are addressed in this document: The world -expertise beyond the institution: What can/should citizen demand of the HE sector on the Web era? Teaching & learning -taking advantage of the Web: Which areas of our teaching and learning do we need to change to respond to the opportunities…
The filter bubble!
I already knew about this idea but I came across this very good TedTalk where Eli Pariser is just amazingly clear about the filter bubble how he called it. As teachers it is our responsibility to stress critical thinking in our students and this is a brilliant way to say…
The essence of philosophy is the art of thinking…and it should serve human fluorishing
From Giorgio Bertini's blog https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz8cVS8LoO7ONUJWNWNxdTlPNEk/preview
Personal learning environment and the learning of mathematics. Possibility or reality?
I have participated in a conference organised in Belgrade by Singidunum University. They are oriented towards business and the conference mainly approached themes about the impact of the Internet on business activities in Serbia. They have plans to broaden their offer and include educational studies. So for this conference they…
The intelligence of complexitiy…
Another complexity to read! [googleapps domain="docs" dir="file/d/0Bz8cVS8LoO7ORXRzZl9zSGNkbUE/preview" query="" width="640" height="480" /]
Tools and how we think and communicate
Relationships with tools, the media and, the way we communicate and interact with the world, are changing at a pace that is almost unreachable. The same is happening with the plethora of “intellectual technologies”(Bell, 1974) available to create a variety of artefacts weather to learn, to teach or maybe just…
Mathematics makes the invisible visible
[vimeo 90522211 w=500 h=281] Mathematics is the raw material, the energy that drives the system. Nowadays we do not burn fossil fuel to produce we burn mathematics
What the experts have to say about PLEs
A very short summary of some of the relevant aspects (for me) that I took from a slide share of Illona Buchen about different definitions of personalised learning environments [slideshare id=36847878&doc=whattheexperthavetosay-140710142759-phpapp02]
